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Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A. by James Ellroy 9780375704710
Booksplease Price: £13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375704710Author James EllroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Dark Places: Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy by Joseph Romance 9781666926002
Booksplease Price: £81.47James Ellroy has mined the darkest corners of the American experience, public and private, to paint a landscape of corrupt hearts, minds, and institutions. Ellroy is particularly notable for... -
Like Hot Knives to the Brain: James Ellroy's Search for Himself by Peter Wolfe 9780739120026
Booksplease Price: £44.76Often more disturbing than entertaining, James Ellroy is an author who never shies away from the ugly or repellent. Eminent crime fiction scholar Peter Wolfe examines how Ellroy transcends the genres... -
American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand: Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol.1 by James Ellroy
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.04American Tabloid gives us John F. Kennedy's rise and fall from an insider's perspective. We're there for the rigged 1960 election and for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. We're the eyes and ears and souls... -
Fever City: A Thriller by Tim Baker
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Nick Alston, a Los Angeles private investigator, is hired to find the kidnapped son of America's richest and most hated man.Hastings, a mob hitman in search of redemption, is also on the trail. But... -
L.A. Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy: Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, Suicide Hill by James Ellroy
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Three of Ellroy's most compelling novels featuring Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins in one volume. Blood On The Moon: 20 random killings of women are unconnected in police files. But Det. Sgt. Lloyd... -
The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, the Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz by James Ellroy 9781101908051
Booksplease Price: £46.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908051Author James EllroyFormat HardbackPage Count 1416Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher... -
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, the Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy 9781101908044
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908044Author James EllroyFormat HardbackPage Count 1176Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher... -
Tokyo Redux by David Peace
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A powerful, stirring read.' The Times'Typically brilliant . I loved it.' Adrian McKinty'The most stone-cold crime novel of 2021.' CrimeReadsTokyo, July 1949. President Shimoyama, Head of the... -
The Wanted by Robert Crais 9781471157493
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01'Just keeps getting better and better' Evening Standard As addictive as Lee Child and as explosive as Michael Connelly - THE WANTED is the new thriller from Robert Crais, and a NEW YORK TIMES... -
Stolen Souls by Stuart Neville
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Gayla's only hope is about to turn into her worst nightmareTricked into coming to Ireland with the offer of a good job, all Gayla wants to do now is run. As far and as fast as she can. Because her... -
The Devil Raises His Own Scott Philipps 9781835013564
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Phillips is dark, dangerous, and important . . . Crime fiction at its best.' Michael ConnellyThis dark historical adventure captures the beginnings of the Hollywood studio system and the 'blue... -
American Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to US Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw 9781843449188
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction and film. Following his books on Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and Euro Noir he now tackles the largest and, some might argue, most... -
Black Dahlia, Red Rose: A 'Times Book of the Year' by Piu Eatwell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26******* A TIMES 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' **********Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for non-fiction***'A magnificent, meticulous and startling re-examination of a crime that haunts the world's imagination'... -
The Complete The Killer: Second Edition by Matz
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £28.45As an elite assassin suffers a psychological crisis as he attempts to remove himself from the political ramifications his killings have caused."Highly recommended to action and noir fans." - Library... -
He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.06Jake Arnott's 'mesmerizing, brilliant' (New York Times Book Review) second novel, a literary thriller that delves into corruption on both sides of the law and at the heart of the state.During the... -
November Road by Lou Berney 9780008309336
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88WINNER OF THE 2020 CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD WINNER OF THE 2018 HAMMETT PRIZE 'A great read, combining brutal action with a moving love story;... -
Box Nine by Jack O'Connell 9781843446477
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.77A stunningly original nightmare novel about the impact of a new synthetic drug - Lingo - on the depressed New England factory town of Quinsigamond, where it was secretly developed. Besides offering a... -
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Eddie Muller
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.60TCM host Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in an authoritative, highly illustrated volume.This... -
The Golden Gate: 'Historical detective noir at its best' Janice Hallett Amy Chua 9781838959517
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31SHORTLISTED FOR MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA BEST FIRST NOVEL EDGAR 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ILP JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 2024SHORTLISED FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARDS... -
Red Hot Front by Harry Brett 9781472152664
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.93'With the tough matriarch at its heart, this second instalment of Brett's Great Yarmouth-set series is brilliant seaside noir, the action playing out at cracking pace in the rough and seedy resort'... -
Word Made Flesh by Jack O'Connell 9781843446538
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Why would two Eastern European meatboys want to whack an innocent cab driver? That's the question that occurs to Gilrein as Raban and Blumfeld press the gun barrel into his mouth. Does it have... -
Red Hot Front by Harry Brett
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'With the tough matriarch at its heart, this second instalment of Brett's Great Yarmouth-set series is brilliant seaside noir, the action playing out at cracking pace in the rough and seedy resort'... -
Stainless: A Modern Romance by Todd Grimson 9781961341456
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.56A bloody, erotic love story from "the greatest horror writer you've never read . . . In Stainless, Todd Grimson set out to write 'the Ultimate, Final Vampire Novel'-and succeeded." (The Guardian) ... -
The Golden Gate by Amy Chua 9781838959487
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73'An epic, devastating, majestic mystery. Clever, richly imagined and outright thrilling' Chris Whitaker Berkeley, California 1944: A former presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms... -
The Way Home by George Pelecanos 9780753827116
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02How far will a father go to save his son? A page-turning story of rebellion, greed, and the high price of a second chance from 'one of the finest crime writers in America' THE TIMES.Hidden beneath... -
The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79Your only child is lost between this world and the next, and more than anything you want him back. A controversial doctor and a mysterious stranger claim they have the answer. Who do you trust? Are... -
Every Hidden Thing by Ted Flanagan 9780857305589
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31THE MUST-READ NOIR FOR FANS OF ELMORE LEONARD, JAMES ELLROY AND MICHAEL CONNELLY'A hard-charging, bell-ringing, mother-....... debut novel!' - James EllroyThe last scion of a once-powerful political... -
Time to Win by Harry Brett
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'The Godfather in Great Yarmouth' Ian Rankin'An atmospheric and riveting tale' Guardian* * * * * The Sun'Harry Brett writes a fun plot with witty elegance' The TimesWhen local crime boss Richard... -
Shame The Devil by George Pelecanos
Booksplease Price: £20.70'Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer' STEPHEN KINGWashington, D.C., 1995. What should have been a straightforward restaurant robbery goes horribly wrong. Several workers are shot in... -
City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir by Paul French
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Shanghai's champion storyteller - He grips his reader to the end' Economist'Gripping, breakneck ultra-noir reminiscent of vintage Ellroy' David Peace, author of Red or Dead'If you love Richard Lloyd... -
L.A. Confidential: The Screenplay Brian Helgeland 9780446674270
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.12Based on the novel and with an introduction by James EllroyBook InformationISBN 9780446674270Author Brian HelgelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little,... -
Black Dahlia Avenger: Case Closed: The Definitive Edition Steve Hodel 9781648212116
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.52A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! THIS NEW AND UPDATED EDITION FINALLY PROVES THE SHOCKING IDENTITY OF THE BLACK DAHLIA KILLER-AND THE POLICE CORRUPTION THAT CONCEALED IT FOR SO LONGIn 1947, the brutal,... -
The Killer: Affairs of the State by Matz
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.62The Eisner-nominated series returns ahead of the upcoming David Fincher Netflix film!Caught and put to work as an on-call assassin for the French government, Killer has to adjust to working with a... -
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Tom Dalzell 9780367570491
RRP: £69.98Booksplease Price: £64.19Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge... -
Bandit Country by Jamie Reid 9781789465501
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Welcome to an after-dark world of new money, hedonism and excess. A world of luxurious nightclubs where racketeers, gamblers and glamorous women mixed with entrepreneurs, bunny girls, politicians and... -
Green River Rising by Tim Willocks
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54An edge-of-your-seat thriller for all fans of James Ellroy, Cormac McCarthy and John Grisham. For fans of The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Rock. After three years' hard time,... -
The Badge: True and Terrifying Crime Stories That Could Not Be Presented on TV, from the Creator and Star of Dragnet by Jack Webb 9781560256885
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560256885Author James EllroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher... -
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English Tom Dalzell 9781138722088
RRP: £86.99Booksplease Price: £77.83The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as... -
Brazilian Psycho Joe Thomas 9781911350842
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'BRAZILIAN PSYCHO is a riveting and explosive masterpiece of political crime fiction that deserves to share the shelf with AMERICAN TABLOID, THE POWER OF THE DOG and A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN...